But looking at the table of delicious-looking vegetables and meat in front of her, she knew that Mu Yan had been modest before.
"Grandma, Xixi, please try it. I don't know if the food I cook will suit your taste."
Mu Yan felt a little nervous, like a new bride who had just married into the family.
Lin Hongfen and Ying Xixi tasted a few bites of the vegetables and meat and gave him a thumbs up.
"It's delicious! Xiao Mu, I thought you couldn't cook, but you're actually quite good at it."
"Delicious, Mu Yan, I didn't expect you to be such a good cook."
Mu Yan breathed a sigh of relief, "As long as it suits your taste."
Ying Xixi was really hungry, so she buried her head in eating.
She never raised her head to pick up food during the whole process because Mu Yan was picking up food for her.
Moreover, Mu Yan seemed to know her preferences very well, and the dishes he picked were all her favorites.
Or rather, all the dishes on the table are her favorites.
Ying Xixi ate and drank her fill, and rubbed her bulging belly with satisfaction.
"Mu Yan, your cooking skills are quite good. By the way, today is New Year's Eve. You should rush back to your hometown to celebrate the New Year."
Ying Xixi remembered this and asked.
Mu Yan shook his head and said, "I'm not going back. I'll stay here with you and grandma for the New Year."
Mu Yan said this very frankly.
Ying Xixi blinked and asked, "Why?"
Mu Yan looked at Ying Xixi seriously, "Because I like you, I don't want you to be in danger again because of my leaving, but I can't save you.
If I hadn't left a few days ago, at least some things could have been avoided if I had been here.
Even if it couldn't be avoided, I could have saved you earlier and you wouldn't have been injured and had to go to the hospital.
So I will stay and watch over you and protect you."
Ying Xixi: “….”
Mu Yan's straight ball really caught her off guard.
It seems that the fact that Mu Yan thought she was dead had a great impact on him.
Look, he's so scared that he seems like a different person.
How timid I was about love before, how straightforward I am now.
Ying Xixi opened her mouth, not knowing how to respond to Mu Yan's direct question, so she simply changed the subject.
"Um, police, do you know what's going on? Is Wang Dehua's husband still alive?"
"Yes, Wang Dehua's husband is dead. His body... is the one I mistakenly identified."
When talking about this, Mu Yan looked a little unnatural.
He mistook Xixi's body for hers and confessed his feelings to someone else's body.
Even Xixi saw it.
It was a shame that he said he liked Xixi, but in the end he couldn't even recognize the corpse of the person he loved.
Ying Xixi also thought of the scene in the factory at that time. Looking at Mu Yan's expression, she could guess what he was thinking.
She coughed and said, "So he's dead. It's good that he's dead. At least this will ensure my safety in the future.
There shouldn’t be any relatives of Wang Dehua who will come out and kidnap me.
Well, Mu Yan, you don’t have to feel guilty. I have never died before, and you have never seen what my corpse looks like.
Wang Dehua's husband's body was completely charred, and he looked not much different from me. It's normal for you to make a mistake."
After Ying Xixi finished speaking, she felt that what she said sounded strange.
Lin Hongfen, who was sitting next to her, said with a sullen face, "What nonsense are you talking about on New Year's Day? What's with all the talk of death? You're just spitting out bad luck."
Ying Xixi smiled and spat three times.
Lin Hongfen: "Xiao Mu, you really don't have to feel guilty. It's understandable that you identified the wrong body.
Fortunately, Xixi is fine, you are fine, and everyone is fine.
As long as you are still alive and well, all the regrets from the past can be made up for later.
It depends on what you think.
Have you told your parents that you won’t be going back to your hometown for the New Year?
Do they agree?"
Mu Yan understood what his grandmother meant and nodded. "They agreed, and they're here too. Grandma, can our two families celebrate the New Year together this year?"
Just as Mu Yan finished speaking, the doorbell rang.
He stood up to open the door, and it was his parents who came in.
"Grandma, we're disturbing you again!"
As soon as He Yi opened his mouth, the room suddenly became much more lively.
Lin Hongfen and Ying Xixi looked at each other, both a little surprised.
"Xiao Mu and Xiao He, you guys rushed back like this. Do the people back home agree?"
He Yi waved his hand, “Grandma, it’s okay, it doesn’t matter whether they agree or not.
Every year when I go back, a group of relatives are always comparing themselves with each other, which really annoys me.
I didn’t even want to go back home for the New Year this year.
Yesterday we heard from Mu Yan that Xixi had an accident, so we thought we’d better come and celebrate the New Year with you guys with a shameless face.
Firstly, it can protect Xixi, and secondly, it will be more lively for the two families to celebrate the New Year together, is that okay, Grandma?"
Since He Yi said so, there was no reason for Lin Hongfen to disagree.
And even if He Yi didn't say so much, Lin Hongfen would agree.
As I get older, I always hope that there will be more people at home and it will be more lively.
The home she and Xixi lived in was so lonely.
"Of course, we welcome you!
You're welcome, let's have a good New Year's Eve tonight!"
"Okay! Then we won't be polite, Grandma. Mu Yan, you and your dad go downstairs and bring up everything in the trunk."
He Yi gave Mu Yan instructions and rolled up his sleeves to clean up the mess on the table.
We had lunch at noon and had to prepare the New Year’s Eve dinner again.
Ying Xixi also stood up quickly when she saw this. "Aunt He, you and Uncle Mu must not have eaten since you rushed back. Don't clean up these for now. I'll go heat up some food. You and Uncle Mu can fill your stomachs first."
"It's okay, we ate something on the way. Xixi, sit down. You just came out of the hospital, so you should have a good rest.
It's just a small matter, Aunt He can do it."
He Yi said this with a smile and asked Ying Xixi to sit down and rest.
Ying Xixi scratched her head and looked at her grandmother.
Lin Hongfen patted her soothingly and said, "Sit down and rest for a while."
Ying Xixi simply took out her cell phone to surf the Internet, and happened to see a news account talking about the kidnapping and factory explosion that happened yesterday.
Wang Dehua's husband kidnapped her because he held a grudge against her for calling the police and letting Wang Dehua go in and operate the sewing machine.
All her livelihoods were wiped out, and Wang Dehua's husband still had millions of dollars in high-interest loans to pay back.
In a rage, he thought of kidnapping her to take revenge on her, and even had the idea of dying with her.
If he died, he wouldn't have to pay the loan shark.
He also arranged the gasoline and other supplies in the factory in advance.
Ying Xixi thought back to what happened at the factory and was glad that she had bound herself to the system's golden finger.
Fortunately, she decisively bought a substitute doll prop, otherwise she would have been the one burned into a charred corpse.
The substitute doll blocked the fatal blow for her and saved her life.
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